Summary: On the eve of the battle with Morganna, Mimiru made a rather shocking discovery about Silver Knight…
Warnings: Complete and utter crack… under the disguise of a serious fic. I don't do drugs, but it's hard to believe that while reading this.
Disclaimer: I own none of the .hack franchise. The only thing I own is this story.
Hey Old Man! You're… WHAT?!
In hindsight, Mimiru thought with a mask of shock still plastered on her face, she really shouldn't have started that conversation…
"Old man!" Mimiru chirped, trying to make small talk with the solitary knight. Trying to ignore the uncomfortable feeling in her stomach whenever she thought about the upcoming battle that could be her last.
Trying not to feel scared.
"Who are you calling old man?" The normally stern knight– and unbearably prideful, Mimiru reminded herself –retorted back indignantly. Woah… so the old man doesn't like being called old, huh? Man, some people just can't face reality.
"You're young, huh?" The female Heavy Blade asked in an effort to humor Silver Knight, eyebrows rising in a poor parody of exaggerated shock.
"More or less." The voice behind the visor sounded a bit evasive now... Aha! So he doesn't want people to know his real age. An old man after all!
However, as Mimiru rejoiced at having 'evidence' to one-up Silver Knight, she had missed the devious smirk appearing on his unmasked lips.
"Besides," the knight continued lightly, "who told you I am a man?" Turning his head, the masked knight waited patiently for the message to sink in.
"What do you mean, of cour – "The female warrior suddenly stopped in the middle of her sentence, stupefied. Her eyes the size of saucers, she slowly turned to face him. "Wait," she squeaked, "y-you mean… you're a g-girl in real life?! Gah!" Jumping up and shaking her head, the female Heavy Blade continued. "That's too weird! It's weirder than Bear being a forty-something old geezer! I mean – Gah!" She paused briefly (mostly to gulp in air before starting her tirade again, he thought), and looked at him strangely, a gleam in her virtual eyes.
"You're joking, right?" She asked, an uneasy smile on her face and a desperate tone creeping into her voice. "Please tell me you were joking."
"Unfortunately for you, no." The masked knight said airily.
"No way!" Mimiru exclaimed. "You've gotta be lying, old man. No woman has a voice like yours!"
"Once again, I'm not old." The knight paused. "And I am a woman. I just use a voice-modifying software. I could switch it off."
Before Mimiru could get the 'N' out of "No, thank you", Silver Knight froze, indicating his player had removed their FMD headset.
Meanwhile, in the real world, a figure smirked and fiddled with the voice-altering software on the computer.
After a moment or two, the masked Blademaster stirred again. "There." A woman's voice said. Kind of brash and low-pitched, not very feminine, but still a woman's voice. "Now you know I'm not lying. A knight never lies."
Mimiru screamed.
End
AN: Haha… anyway, this weird fic is spawned due to a comment I saw on youtube in the debates regarding a certain Wavemaster's gender. In the debate, someone said "the chick that fainted was Silver Knight" regarding the then-ambiguous scene of Shouji An collapsing.
Also I thought that it would be fun to freak Mimiru (and the others) out, when Mimiru had that conversation with the Silver Knight.